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Saturday, 20 June 2015

To say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book, said Nietzsche. Here are ten sentences of mine.Romania is the Orient dreaming that it is France.

The Balkans is not a geographical expression but a state of mind.The Victorians liked sex. If they hadn't there wouldn't have been any Edwardians.One tells oneself Guardian readers are people too but somehow that makes the offence worse.

The existence of women is the strongest proof of the existence of God.

Biology is very right-wing.

History, like poetry, art and jokes, exists to reveal a hidden order and meaning in the world.

Economics does not determine culture, as Marxists taught. Culture, of course, determines economics. Culture is determined most by religion, then by history and genetics.

When I was growing up I used to thank God every day that I wasn't American, but now I take it for granted. I am at ease in Zion.Life is a helter-skelter. I am clinging to the sides.